calc_mnc: Mean Centre Calculator

In aspace: Functions for Estimating Centrographic Statistics

Mean Centre Calculator

Description

Compute the mean centre from a series of point locations.

Usage

calc_mnc(id=1, weighted=FALSE, weights=NULL,
 points=NULL, verbose=FALSE)

Arguments

id	A unique integer to identify the mean centre
weighted	Boolean: Set to TRUE if the weighted mean center is to be computed with weighted coordinates
weights	Weights applied to point observations, number of weights should equal the number of observations
points	A 2-column matrix or data frame containing the set of point observations
verbose	A Boolean flag that controls verbose feedback to the monitor

Details

Use the meanloc (coordinates) and meanatt(attributes) to produce shapefiles using the convert.to.shapefile and write.shapefile from the shapefiles library

Value

The returned result is a list:

TYPE	The type of calculation results stored in the object: BOX, SDD, SDE, CMD, CF, or CF2PTS, MNC, MDC
DATE	The date and time that the function was run
ID	Identifier for the mean centre - it should be unique
LOCATIONS	Locations pertinent for the MNC that can be used with ATTRIBUTES if wishing to build a vector point file for geographic data outside of this pacakge.
FORPLOTTING	Coordinates and identifiers used for plotting.
ATTRIBUTES	Attributes for the output MNC that can be used with LOCATIONS coordinates if wishing to build a vector point file for geographic data outside of this package.
id	Identifier for the mean centre - it should be unique
weighted	Boolean: TRUE if the weighted mean centre is to be used instead
weights	Weights applied to point observations
CENTRE.x	X-coordinate of the mean centre
CENTRE.y	Y-coordinate of the mean centre

Note

Results are stored in the r.mean object and can be passed through plotting functions. This function can also be used repetitively within a loop to compute multiple mean centres from different datasets.

Author(s)

Randy Bui, Ron Buliung

See Also

calc_box, calc_sdd, calc_sde, calc_cmd, calc_cf, calc_cf2pts, calc_mdc

Examples

# MEAN CENTRE EXAMPLE
a <- calc_mnc(id=1, points=activities)
str(a)
print(a)

# MEAN CENTRE TO SHAPEFILE EXAMPLE (REMOVE THE COMMENTS TO RUN)
# shp <- convert.to.shapefile(a$LOCATIONS, a$ATTRIBUTES, "id", 5)
# write.shapefile(shp, "Mean_Shape", arcgis=T)

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